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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

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Deforestation has caused the Amazon rainforest and similar areas to lose their ability to recover from disturbances such as drought, wildfires, and human development, according to a recent article published in Scientific American. IoT food container tags can reduce food and water waste. Let’s treat every day as Earth Day.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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If they get back into the land and water, it has very negative effects on the health of our vegetation, our animals, and our people. Five years of banging the drum, and thanks to this article, we were finally off to the races…comparatively. So unfortunately, no, I’m not surprised [by the Lancet study]. Comparatively.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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We started the company in 2017. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration. You can imagine a basic water filter, like you’d use for well water or a pool, and we’ve simply figured out a way to electrify it safely.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ If I can just expand on that a little.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. The Trump administration attempted to throw this process into reverse by watering down the federal standards.

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